Where'd Chrissy read that? ...in the 'People's Weekly'...???
...I'd suspect that most REAL Americans feel otherwise...
Posted on 05/12/2006 6:54:57 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
May 12, 2006
psychosis: 'A severe mental illness in which the person has lost contact with reality."
OK, I'm not kidding: judging from tonight's episode of Hardball, either the MSM is psychotic, or I am. You be the armchair psychiatrist.
Chris Matthews' guest was NY Times media reporter Bill Carter. Matthews, discussing W's low poll numbers, observed:
"Bush is down there, Lou Harris, a liberal pollster, let's get straight on that, has got him down at 29. Is it too easy now to bash him? Even the money guys now in our business are saying, 'hit him again'. Is it too easy now to bash him?"
Carter: "You have to say, the media didn't go after him for a long time."
Matthews: "Tell me about it. They were embedded, I think. Too much."
Carter: "Way too much. So when it turns around . . . "
Matthews:
"Here's a favorite topic of mine, which is the war in Iraq. I've been skeptical about the arguments made. I can't say right or wrong, but I think there's been real questions about the case made. But I see the media still in this lazy habit of assuming if you're pro-war, if you think this was a smart thing to do, you're treated as the majority. The fact is that Cindy Sheehan, is more representative of most people's thinking now, as far left as she seems, because most Americans for months now believe it was a mistake to go to war, yet the mainstream media continues to act as if most people support the war and it's the outside weirdos that oppose it. That's not true! The average American opposes this war."
Carter: "That's what the polls are telling us."
Matthews: "Why does the media still act as if this is a gung-ho country?"
Carter: "I think the media has been very much currying favor with the administration for a long time."
Matthews: "Why?"
Carter: "Because I think that was the only way to get access with these guys. They've been very difficult to talk to and you see that playing out."
Matthews: "You're singing my song. I think you're right. The word embedding is of course appropriate for people like David Bloom who went out there and lost his life, really risking in the tough conditions of war, but when you start thinking like the party you're covering, the politicians you're covering . . . "
Carter: "I've seen more comment recently about that whole embedding thing was a psychological ploy almost and it worked very effectively to get the media thinking we're involved, you're more involved that way."
Look, no one denies that there's been more discontent lately with the war. But the notion that:
The MSM "didn't go after Pres. Bush for a long time."
The MSM were psychologically 'embedded' with the Bush administration.
The MSM treats pro-war people as "the majority."
Cindy Sheehan is representative of America.
The MSM act as if most people support the war.
The MSM acts as if this is a gung-ho country.
The MSM has been currying favor with the administration for a long time.
The MSM thinks like the Republican party and Republican politicians.
Sorry, but either Matthews and Carter are crazy, or I am. As I said, you be the judge.
The mere fact that nobody broke out laughing at that statement speaks volumes about those people. I mean, what reason on earth would a liberal pollster possibly skew poll results about a Republican president? /sarc
I'm not even going to touch the Cindy Sheehan thing, for the reason that it is even more ridiculous than the above bit about Harris.
I don't know how he can say this. the MSM is battering us with W's approval polls in the 20s!
Or maybe he could just put on a dress and nobody could tell the difference!
The Pentagon has confirmed today that Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and al Zawahri have been captured and are being held at an undisclosed location.
NOAA scientist have issued a press release today claiming they have found a simple low cost solution to global warming (rumored to have been assisted by algore).
Greek officials report that Natalie Holloway has been found living on a local oil magnate’s yacht.
A UFO has crashed near Ft Wayne Utah, the alien occupants are alive and being cared for by Air Force personnel.
We’ll have these and other stories, but first, out top story; New evidence has come to light that strongly suggests that Bush did in fact lie about WMD’s!
I’m Chris Matthews, let’s play Hardball.
Chris Matthews is SO eaten up with hate for President Bush, that his whole view of the MSM, the war in Iraq, and Americans is skewed about 180 degrees from the truth.
Unfortunately, he gets enough people to come on his show and agree with him, that he really thinks it is true.
Someone needs to do an "intervention" on this guy...and make him wake up to the "real world".
That alone would qualify him as "Worst Cable News Host Ever".
You never know what outrageous stream of crap will flow out of that slit that passes for a mouth on Chris Matthews.
Said dripping with contempt, no doubt.
So, embedded is the media elite four letter word for a reporter who doesn't toe the party line. Thanks Crissy, I didn't know that before, but I'm sure it will burn my ears everytime I hear one of your fellow elites snarl it from now on.
Great points...
I wonder how Chrissy would like it if at the start of every White House Press Briefing, Tony Snow would announce his show's ratings...like he announces Bush's supposed poll numbers, every single night...sigh
Course most polls tell us that way less than 29% of people surveyed trust the media. But for some reason, that's not a problem..
Hardball is batting practice for a FReeper like yourself. You keep knocking them out of the park. Keep up the great work. Thanks.
"Great points...
I wonder how Chrissy would like it if at the start of every White House Press Briefing, Tony Snow would announce his show's ratings...like he announces Bush's supposed poll numbers, every single night...sigh"
Now, THAT would be funny.
Boy oh Boy...would I love to meet Chris Matthews in a dark alley sometime. I'll show him the real meaning of embedded.
Where'd Chrissy read that? ...in the 'People's Weekly'...???
Ah yes. "...in the words of the Master." Yes indeed.
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